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This paper is from Session 7C: General purpose statistical tools for students
which comes under Topic 7: Technology in Statistics education             Full topic list


(Tuesday 4th, 10:30-12:30)

Dynamic, interactive documents for teaching statistical practice


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  • Duncan Temple Lang

Abstract

Along with many others, we propose that statistical thinking and literacy are the important elements to teach rather than rules and methods. We propose that this is true for all levels of statistics education. We further argue that we must teach our students how statistics can be used to answer scientific questions and how to connect relevant statistical methods to these questions. We outline an approach that allows authors to create documents describing data analyses and tutorials that combine the description of the analysis with the computations performed along with the thought process. These documents can contain the different branches of exploration which the author pursued, along with the more traditional distilled approach. The document can also contain interactive controls that allow the reader to modify the computations. The documents are thus dynamic (outputs can be recalculated), interactive (controlled by reader) and contain the thought process of the author and also methods for reproducing and exploring the results.